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Title: Characterizing quantum supremacy in near-term devices

Abstract

A critical question for quantum computing in the near future is whether quantum devices without error correction can perform a well-defined computational task beyond the capabilities of supercomputers. Such a demonstration of what is referred to as quantum supremacy requires a reliable evaluation of the resources required to solve tasks with classical approaches. Here, we propose the task of sampling from the output distribution of random quantum circuits as a demonstration of quantum supremacy. We extend previous results in computational complexity to argue that this sampling task must take exponential time in a classical computer. We introduce cross-entropy benchmarking to obtain the experimental fidelity of complex multiqubit dynamics. This can be estimated and extrapolated to give a success metric for a quantum supremacy demonstration. We study the computational cost of relevant classical algorithms and conclude that quantum supremacy can be achieved with circuits in a two-dimensional lattice of 7 × 7 qubits and around 40 clock cycles. This requires an error rate of around 0.5% for two-qubit gates (0.05% for one-qubit gates), and it would demonstrate the basic building blocks for a fault-tolerant quantum computer.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [3]; ORCiD logo [4];  [5];  [1]
  1. Google Inc., Venice, CA (United States)
  2. Google Inc., Zurich (Switzerland)
  3. NASA Ames Research Center (ARC), Moffett Field, Mountain View, CA (United States); SGT Inc., Greenbelt, MD (United States)
  4. Univ. of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW (Australia)
  5. Google Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC); Univ. of California, Oakland, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1543766
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nature Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 14; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 1745-2473
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group (NPG)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; Physics

Citation Formats

Boixo, Sergio, Isakov, Sergei V., Smelyanskiy, Vadim N., Babbush, Ryan, Ding, Nan, Jiang, Zhang, Bremner, Michael J., Martinis, John M., and Neven, Hartmut. Characterizing quantum supremacy in near-term devices. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0124-x.
Boixo, Sergio, Isakov, Sergei V., Smelyanskiy, Vadim N., Babbush, Ryan, Ding, Nan, Jiang, Zhang, Bremner, Michael J., Martinis, John M., & Neven, Hartmut. Characterizing quantum supremacy in near-term devices. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-018-0124-x
Boixo, Sergio, Isakov, Sergei V., Smelyanskiy, Vadim N., Babbush, Ryan, Ding, Nan, Jiang, Zhang, Bremner, Michael J., Martinis, John M., and Neven, Hartmut. Mon . "Characterizing quantum supremacy in near-term devices". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-018-0124-x. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1543766.
@article{osti_1543766,
title = {Characterizing quantum supremacy in near-term devices},
author = {Boixo, Sergio and Isakov, Sergei V. and Smelyanskiy, Vadim N. and Babbush, Ryan and Ding, Nan and Jiang, Zhang and Bremner, Michael J. and Martinis, John M. and Neven, Hartmut},
abstractNote = {A critical question for quantum computing in the near future is whether quantum devices without error correction can perform a well-defined computational task beyond the capabilities of supercomputers. Such a demonstration of what is referred to as quantum supremacy requires a reliable evaluation of the resources required to solve tasks with classical approaches. Here, we propose the task of sampling from the output distribution of random quantum circuits as a demonstration of quantum supremacy. We extend previous results in computational complexity to argue that this sampling task must take exponential time in a classical computer. We introduce cross-entropy benchmarking to obtain the experimental fidelity of complex multiqubit dynamics. This can be estimated and extrapolated to give a success metric for a quantum supremacy demonstration. We study the computational cost of relevant classical algorithms and conclude that quantum supremacy can be achieved with circuits in a two-dimensional lattice of 7 × 7 qubits and around 40 clock cycles. This requires an error rate of around 0.5% for two-qubit gates (0.05% for one-qubit gates), and it would demonstrate the basic building blocks for a fault-tolerant quantum computer.},
doi = {10.1038/s41567-018-0124-x},
journal = {Nature Physics},
number = 6,
volume = 14,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Apr 23 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Mon Apr 23 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}

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